Crimson and Wkite
VOL. XXXIX, NO. 13
News Briefs
Career Day
Career Day will be May 17 from
12:30 to 3:00 for students in grades
10, 11, and 12. Students will listen
to speakers from three fields of
their choice. There will be a recep­
tion at 3:00.
College Night
Milne students were invited to a
“College Night” at Cardinal McCloskey High School, April 30 at
7 p.m. There were representatives
from different colleges including
many from S.U.N.Y. to discuss their
colleges and answer questions.
F.H.A. Busy
The Future Homemakers of Amer­
ica conducted their elections for next
year’s officers April 24. The re­
sults will be announced at a banquet
at the Silo Restaurant on May 13.
May 2, they sponsored with the
help of Casual Set a fashion show,
“Shower Power,” in Page Hall.
F.H.A. will sponsor a picnic for
its membership at the Mohawk
campus of SUNY in Saratoga
County after school on May 27.
Latin Club
Thirty-three members of the Latin
Club left Friday morning with their
advisor, Mrs. Wilson, for New York
City.
While there, they saw the Metro­
politan Museum of Art, the
Cloisters, and the Jewish Museum.
The major purpose of the trip was
to study ancient Greek and Roman
art and architecture.
Primary Results
Nominations were held Wednes­
day, April 30, during a Junior Class
meeting fbr Student Council officers.
Nominations were opened to the
floor for each office. The nominee
for the office had to get two sec­
onds in order to run. Two candi­
dates for each office were chosen by
primary from the nominations. They
are, President, Bob Dorkin, David
Wollner; Vice - President: Richard
Green, Gerry Hausler; Secretary:
Jane Barker, Paula LeVine; Treas­
urer: Jeff Lind,and Carol Morganstern. Elections will be Tuesday,
May 13.
TAKE NOTE SENIORS
45 Days to Freedom
Correction
The seniors will sponsor a dance
Friday, May 16, not May 17, featur­
ing the Luv-Minus-Zero.
THE MILNE SCHOOL, S.U.N.Y., ALBANY, N. Y.
MAY 6, 1969
Freak-Out Friday
Students to Display Endeavors May 23
by Kathy Soulis
Students will have an opportunity
to exercise their creativity Friday,
May 23, at an unprecedented Fine
Arts Day.
The idea for this exhibition orig­
inated in the faculty fine arts com­
mittee, of which English supervisor,
Mr. William Kraus, is a member.
He will be the faculty advisor for
Fine Arts Day.
Stuart Welch,
Kathie Siebert, Steven Dunn and
Sara Boomsliter are members of
this committee, and act as inter­
mediaries between this and a steer­
ing committee, consisting of three
students from each grade under the
direction of Mr. Arthur Ahr. This
committee will refer students to the
department which most closely co­
incides with their project. They
will also assign areas for the setting
up of projects.
Student Council has appropriated
$250 to be used in the purchase of
various materials needed for the
fine arts projects. These will be
placed in a central pool for use by
students.
It has been decided that school
Standardized Driving Hours
by Aaron Kuperman
(CSP)—Drivers holding Junior Operator’s licenses will be barred from
driving between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. under a new law going into effect
January 1, 1970.
Junior operators are now barred from driving from half an hour after
sunset until half an hour before sunrise unless accompanied by a parent
or going to or from school.
A spokesman for the Motor Vehicle Department said the new law will
simplify the current one which changes daily.
Junior operators will legally be able to drive for more hours in the
winter and less hours during the summer.
Junior operators are drivers between 16 and 18. If a person takes
driver education (not the 3 hour driver safety lecture) he can get his
senior license at 17.
will be dismissed at noon May 23 to
allow sufficient time for assembling
the exhibits. The display will begin
at 3:00, there will be a break for
dinner, and the project will resume
until 8:00.
The motivation for all projects
must come from the students. As
Mr. Ahr sees it, “We supervisors
aren’t here to do all the work. If
someone is stuck and needs help,
we’re available, but the motivation
and energy really has to come from
the students themselves.”
The scope of exhibits will extend
from a demonstration in selfdefense using judo and karate to
French cuisine. A “sense room”
will be built, and a light show given.
Mr. Ahr will contribute a sculpture
made from garbage collected from
the Milne cafeteria. Mrs. Dupuis’
second pattern home economics class
will present a fashion show in four
“scenes.”
Technical assistance will be ren­
dered by students who are not on
either committee mentioned above.
Milne parents as well as the gen­
eral public are invited to share this
new experience.
A New Science
June Concert
by Jon Soffer
Florida State University is con­
ducting an experimental science
program. This program extends to
15,000 seventh and eighth grade stu­
dents in Milne and other schools
around the country. This program,
unlike the previous one (which was
for only one semester) lasts a year.
There is no real class structure
in this program. Experiments are
done individually or with a lab
partner.
The seventh and eighth grade
programs deal primarily with
physics and chemistry. The planned
ninth grade course will deal with
earth science.
As June approaches, the minds of most students turn to the exciting
last part of the school year—tests, vacations, warm weather. But a different
event is looming large in the thoughts of at least three score Milnites. It
is^ “Concert, ’69.”
“Concert, ’69,” as it is tentatively titled, will be that musical excursion
led by the Milnites and the Band. It promises to be by far the most
physically and musically elaborate exhibition of this sort-by Milnites, ever.
The investment of long hours of work by the musicians, the vocalists and
the leaders of these groups (Dr. and Mrs. Roy York, Jr.) has most assuredly
paid off, a fact to which anyone who attends the concert will be able to
attest.
Fortunately for both the participants arid the audience, this program
is to be presented comfortably ahead of exam time (June 4), thereby
attend and enjoy this display of
freeing both students and faculty
student talent.
NOW IT'S Dr. BOEHM
Mr. Thomas Boehm of the Science
Department will receive his doctor­
ate in Science Education from Ohio
State University June 7.
His thesis was titled “Science
Supervision.” Dr. Boehm, who re­
ceived his masters at State Univer­
sity at Albany, has been at Milne
as a supervisor for ten years.
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May Happenings
Date
Event
1 Baseball—Maple Hill at Milne
2 Track—Hudson Invitational
3 Baseball—Ichabod Crane at
Milne
5 Tennis—Milne at Maple Hill
Golf—Maple Hill at Milne
6 Baseball—Milne at Waterford
7 Golf—Catskill at Milne
8 Baseball—Catskill at Milne
9 Baseball—Milne at Alb. Acad.
10 Track—Middleburgh Invit.
12 Golf—St. John’s at Milne
13 Baseball—Voorheesville at Milne
14 Golf—Van Rensselaer at Milne
Tennis—Maple Hill at Milne
Track—Milne at Shalmont
15 Baseball—Milne at Heatly
Golf—C.B.A. at Milne
16 Track—C.H.V.L. at Coxsackie
Golf—Milne at Catskill
Sports Are in Action
by Kathy Soulis
Lansingburg High School will host
a softball sports day May 17, to
which Milne will send a softball
team. Milne girls will sponsor a
softball play day May 19 to be at­
tended by all grades. One GAA
credit will be allotted for attend­
ance.
The Schenectady Invitational
Track Meet will be at Mont Pleasant
this year, and Milne will be repre­
sented there May 16.
Track and field and softball in­
tramurals take place throughout
the week, and tennis intramurals
will be run by Sandy Jabbour.
May 21 and 22 mark the days for
varsity and junior varsity cheer­
leading tryouts respectively. Var­
sity cheerleaders will come from
grades 9 through 11, and junior
varsity from grades 8 through 10.
Discussion about the MGAA Ban­
quet has begun, but finding a suit­
able hall has become the associa­
tion’s chief problem regarding this
annual event.
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CRIMSON AND WHITE
Thoughts on Leaving
I’ve repeatedly been asked to write a “farewell” article as one of the
out-going editors. Actually I had prefered to slip out quietly and un­
noticed, but I am more inclined to write this article than to acquire any
new enemies.
To be honest, at this point I’m quite happy about saying goodbye.
Nothing pleases me more than knowing there are less than 50 days to
graduation. It’s a strange thing being a senior. It’s almost like being in
a different dimension. Nothing seems to fit properly anymore, and yet
it really doesn’t matter.
It doesn’t matter . . . Lately a few supervisors have begun to ask why
It doesn’t matter. They realize we’ve been accepted into our colleges, but
why have we lost interest in learning for the sake of knowledge?
Their answer is in their own questions. I don’t mean to be critical,
but what we’re learning now I don’t consider knowledge anymore. I’ve
spent the past five and a half years memorizing lectured facts, chapters
in books and other people’s opinions to pass a few million standardized
tests. Now I’d like a chance to use these teachings in the pursuit of
knowledge. Facts and educated opinions are necessary to obtain any kind
of knowledge, but these facts and opinions become useless if not related
to the times, if not extended to outside the classroom, if not discussed and
criticized through our own individual standards.
Occasionally a few of my classes have strayed from the set lesson-plan
and have developed into excellent discussions on various current topics.
This is the kind of knowledge we’re looking for now. Knowledge to exist
in a world that is So far away from the quiet, orderly classroom.
Since it is necessary for all seniors to take English and history, why
not expand on these areas? The English department has done an excellent
job in the various units presented this year, but why not try something
different next year? Reserve second semester or fourth quarter for indi­
vidual projects similar to what was done in the junior English class this
year. Give the students a chance to develop their interests under guided
supervision.
The history department has also done a decent job in it’s curriculum.
Yet one small suggestion would improve it beyond perfection. Considering
the government course is boring, but necessary, why not teach it first
semester instead of second, where it will receive better response because
“good” grades still matter. Then teach the sociology course second sem­
ester, going way beyond the book and the classroom. Have more open
discussions, involve the students in community projects, and most im­
portantly stress concern and involvement and not some test next Friday.
—Roz Hohenstein
Does Might Make Right?
Anarchy is fast spreading across
the colleges of our country today.
Militant groups such as the S.D.S.
and black nationalist organizations
are taking over buildings on cam­
puses and forcing their demands on
teachers and other students.
The Negroes demand courses in
Afro-American history and African
history, and then they demand to
choose the teachers for these special
courses.
They want their own
segregated dormitories and buildings
to hold clubs and meetings in.
Bayard Rustin, a civil rights
strategist and organizer of the 1963
March on Washington, has urged
college officials to “stop capitulating
to the stupid demands of Negro stu­
dents . . . and see that they get
the remedial training that they
need.” He said that Negro students
are “suffering from the shock of
integration” and are looking for. “an
easy way out of their problems”
through their demands.
Most of these demands have been
met. One of the latest demands is
for a $35 a week allowance for those
Negroes
possessing
scholarships.
Why can’t these students, like those
before them and many in college
now, go out and work to get spend­
ing money?
This militant minority is ruining
higher education for those who de­
sire the chance to gain more knowl­
edge. It is my belief that if more
colleges and universities would fol­
low the example set by the Univer­
sity of Chicago, being simply to
ignore these groups until they decide
to leave the occupied buildings and
then to expel or suspend these
trouble makers, there would be a
lot less trouble on campusses at this
moment.
—G.G.
Son chance , moo ami [
MAY 6, 1969
TO THE EDITOR
Rather than the usual sports pre­
dictions, schedules, and scores, I
feel it is more appropriate to recog­
nize Mr. Ahr in his unsuccessful
effort to enter the Boston Marathon.
Mr. Ahr had been practicing for
the Marathon continuously for sev­
eral months (including running over
fifty miles on weekends) until three
weeks ago when he was refused a
day of absence for Monday, April 21,
the day of the event. Without suc­
cess, a large group of students
petitioned Dr. Fossieck to give Mr.
Ahr Monday off so he could partici­
pate in the Marathon.
A number of concerned students
displayed black arm bands on the
day of the race as silent protest.
This would have been the second
time he ran in the 26 mile event.
Last year he finished 318th out of a
field of over one thousand and hoped
to place in the top hundred this
year.
Even if we disregard the recogni­
tion Milne would have received
from Mr. Ahr’s entry, there is still
another aspect of this matter. Many
of us believe that he was entitled
to a day of personal leave, to enter
the event for which he had practiced
so long, never suspecting there
would be such an obstacle prevent­
ing his entry.
We read with interest that other
capital district Marathon entries in­
cluded a Voorheesville high school
teacher and a S.U.N.Y.A. professor.
I hope Mr. Ahr will not lose heart
and will try again next year.
—R.D.
War
ten hundred
go . . . only one
hundred return
home,
the others:
forgotten?
Bettina Catricala
THE INCREDIBLE JAMS JOPLIN
by Brian Ferguson
(CSP)—Janis Joplin’s concert at State would have been memorable
for the audience alone, when several thousand people were crushed into
one quivering blob of humanity. The thousand counterfeit tickets issued
by some true capitalist brought the attendance to well over four thousand.
After a 45 minute performance by the Earth Opera, Janis came on
with her new band. She started off with “Raise Your Hand” and ended
after 45 minutes with “Piece of My Heart.” Everybody expected “Ball and
Chain” but it never came.' In an exclusive post-concert interview she told
this reporter, “I was all ready to do ‘Ball and Chain’ as an encore and
really sock it to ’em but they didn’t ask for it. They kinda went ‘clap,
clap, blah and left.”
What did she think of the audience in general? “California and New York
are better. But for a college crowd they were goodbye.” Although after
more wine, she said, “Oh, they were — (gasp!). I don’t care what audiences
do as long as they get off. They can just sit there, jump up and down,
or —their old ladies, as long as they get off.”
How was the band that night? (It was their fourth public appearance
(together). “We were good. We were a lot tighter than we were at Fillmore
(yet) we were loose, too.”
Did it bother her that the audience was almost exclusively white?
Irritated she replied, “Oh man, we’ve forgotten about that. We don’t pay
attention to color,” and continued with a diatribe on the news media’s
overconcern with. race.
‘
She prefers organic shampoo (no lyes or chemicals). Her favorite
band is the defunct Electric Flagg, and she wants “to get more into what
they were doing.”
Her advice to the youth of America, in 25 words or less: “Never believe
anything anybody tells you. Find out for yourself.” Of course, the
question arises, “Why believe her?”
Chicken Little Was Right
I, at least, am very much afraid
that Chicken Little’s prophesy (“The
sky is falling!”) ' may come true at
Milne. Unless some necessary re­
pairs are made, we may come to
school to find one large heap of
bricks where the building once
stood.
Early in the year, the blackboard
in M-228 was broken by a teacher,
leaving a jagged piece of slate as
the remainder of the blackboard
section. This was not only an eye­
sore, but was rather dangerous, and
after six months it has just been
repaired.
In the same room the radiator
sprung a leak about three months
ago. When the puddle on the floor
grew to the size of a desk, the mainlenance men decided to put a cut­
off bleach bottle under the leak to
catch the water. By this time, how­
ever, water had seeped under the
flooring which soon began to come
off in pieces, leaving the black
underlining to be shredded by con­
stant wear. Next came the wooden
floor. The varnish has now worn
off the wood and I’m anxious to
see what comes off next.
Husted is also disintegrating. The
wall around a switchplate has begun
to crumble away. The “beautiful”
skylight over Husted stairs has been
leaking every time it rains since
early this year. This is not only
uncomfortable for students walking
up stairs, but the wet stairs and
floor are slippery and a safety
hazard.
All of these problems have been
present for at least one semester;
certainly something should have
been done to repair them by now.
The brass knobs in this school are
polished quite frequently but major
repairs are never made. This has
at least one advantage; when the
walls collapse and the roof caves
in, all the world will be able to
see what nice, shiny doorknobs the
Milne School had.
—P.R.
Here's Your Chance!
Any criticisms, ideas for new
columns, or topics you would like
to see editorialized upon? The new
editors have put a suggestion box
in R180, Mr. Lewis’ office, and they
welcome all responses. Since the
C&W is your paper, it must reflect
your taste and perscfnality. We will
listen to you.
Crimson
Vol. XXXIX
and
White
May 6, 1969
No. 13
Published by The Milne School,
S.U.N.Y., Albany. Address corres­
pondence to The Editor.
Member
Columbia Scholastic Press Assn.
Cooperative Student Press
The Editorial Board
Editors.........Kathy Soulis, Pat Rao,
Ralph Benko
Page One................... Audrey Levine
Page Two
Gail Goodman
Sports .........................Robert Dorkin
Treasurer................ Louis Finkelstein
Exchanges ............... Bonnie Jupiter
Staff: Jon Soffer, Celia Moore,
Aaron Kuperman, Adrienne
Schapiro, April Shelford
Advisor................ Mr. Richard Lewis